Educational Paths to Careers in English Workshop
October 19, 2002
Group Session: Still Gym 207
Breakout Sessions: Networked Writing and Research Center, Reavis 308, and Telematics Lab, DuSable 2181. Brainstorming about careers
- What careers specifically related to English can you think of?
- In what ways are many other careers dependent upon English language skills? Give examples of job tasks or duties that depend upon language skills.
- How can we get our students excited about and interested in English language arts by using career examples?
2. Some career sites to show your studentsEnglish Majors
High School Career Pages
General:
3. Hands on Activity: Make Your Own Career Related Web Page Using Netscape ComposerYou may want to try this activity with students in your class, if you can get to a computer lab.Please read all of the instructions before beginning, and ask questions about what isn't clear to you. After we begin, please just raise your hand when you need help.
1. Search the web for reputable pages related to a career or job of interest to you. Bookmark these pages or write down the URLs. Choose a career, a category of careers, or a set of career resources that you would like to introduce to your students through your web page.
2. If you are not in Netscape now, open Netscape and choose NEW and COMPOSER PAGE from the FILE menu. You don't need to close this page; use the toolbar at the bottom of your screen to toggle between these instructions and the page you are creating.
3. Type in a title for the page, your name, and perhaps the class for which you will use the page, at the top.
4. Type in a bit of introductory text, such as, "Click on these links to find out more about careers in xxxx."
5. Before you get too far into creating the page, click on SAVE in the FILE menu, and select the A drive (your floppy) to save the file. Give your web page a short name that you can remember, and end the file name with .html (this insures that the file will be recognized as a web page).
6. Type in a title for each of the links you want to include, and a short paragraph explaining what your students can learn from each of the links. You be the judge of how many links you want to include, and how much you want to say about each link.
7. Select each of your intended links and use the link button above (it looks like three links of chain) to open the link window. Paste the URL of the page you want linked into the window, and click the OK button. Save your work frequently so you don't lose it.
8. If you have time, experiment with some of the options in the toolbar and menus by selecting text and trying out different fonts (FORMAT-FONT), selecting different color patterns (FORMAT-PAGE COLORS AND BACKGROUND), adding horizontal lines (INSERT-HORIZONTAL LINE), or changing the indentation and justification (the icons at the right on the lower toolbar). Ask for help if you are not sure what this means. Save frequently to avoid losing work.
9. Finally, discuss what you learned and how your students might use your page with the rest of the group. Think about how students might be asked to research a single career, or a number of careers, as a class project, and write a report or an annotated web page. Think about how you might set up an evaluation/assessment system with students by having them develop set of criteria before doing the project.
4. Helpful resources for making web pages with Netscape Composer
Created June 21, 2001
by Michael
Day
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Michael Day
Last Update: October 18, 2002